Quotes About Art

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Carol Doda's Breasts are up there the way one imagines Electra's should have been, two incredible mammiform protrusions, no mere pliable mass of feminine tissues and fats there but living arterial sculpture––viscera spigot––great blown-up aureate morning glories.

A tattoo is just one more way to identify a body.

Ed Hardy called . . . he wants his clothes back!

Having a body tattoo is like wearing the same shirt everyday for the rest of your life.

Tattoos are just one more way to identify a body.

Tattoos are just one more way to identify the body.

Thank God for white paint because many of my paintings have paintings underneath them because I'm a perfectionist and if I don't like my art I'm pretty sure no one else will.

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.

I don't direct movies for a living.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

There is no American cinema; there are American cinemas.

And she wanted to answer Ruby, wanted to say something intelligible and calm and hip and funny so the work could take precedence again. But the words got caught in the grind of her back teeth as she shred silk and canvas and paper and hair. The rip and shriek of silk prying her teeth apart. And it all came out a growling.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

You're right. I don't need them in front of me, Sis. But, as each tree is different, so is each branch and leaf and flower. What I'm painting this afternoon can't be painted again. They're all different. Once this flower dies there won't be another quite the same.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

The essence will be evident everywhere. In all that the citizens do: in their art, music, food, and their buildings. If the essence of a place nourishes your spirit, then it is a good place to be" -Rovender

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

Maybe every talk about poetry is a defense of poetry...

Poets are wounded like all other human beings, but they have somehow not been wounded into the condition of speechlessness. Not quite.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.